# The Nahployment 'Crisis'

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nahployment-crisis/941117 "2021-04-30T19:07:24Z")\
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> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> Hey, I enjoyed that book.
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> It functioned very effectively as a doorstop for nearly a decade.

Oddly enough, given my words here at the Dope, it’s one of my all-time favorite novels.

> [@"Who Is John Galt?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-john-galt/7848/38):
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> Eh, I not only enjoy it, it’s in my pantheon of novels. A 1950s science fiction drama where the science doesn’t work (and, really didn’t work in the 50s either, lol), but the fascinating thing to me is that it… in my experience… is the only apocalyptic end-of-civilization story I read where civilization is failing because of philosophical contradictions. I even enjoy its faults - Ayn Rand is possibly the worst writer of sex scenes in serious literature, for a minor criticism, and, of course, he…

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